Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
My First Hump Day (*At uTest, Inc.)
It’s official; I’ve survived my first “hump day” in my new company. More importantly, the more I learn about the opportunity with each passing day the more I get absolutely excited about its potential. Don’t get me wrong, consulting over the past year was a lot of fun and I’ve enjoyed the flexibility and teaching.
Rolling Forecasts & Sarcasm
As an analyst I’m not sure if I should take this one personally. I love it either.
A Residents Opinion on Concord’s Bottle Ban
I oppose it, and here's.
Twitter 102: Beyond Signup
Here’s the post I wanted to write for new Twitter users – not the step by step I outlined in “Twitter 101” (which discusses account setup). The bottom line is that, for me, Twitter is all about conversations. As always I’d love to hear your feedback either @MattSolar, by posting a comment below, or by.
Twitter 101: Basic Twitter Tips (inc. Signup)
A simple step-by-step of basic Twitter tips to help get people signed.
SEO Tips for Small Businesses
It should go without saying that there are a lot more variables that go into Google’s organic algorithm. Most small companies, however, don’t have the ability to focus on many of the intricacies of SEO like the big firms do. In steps the 80/20 rule – do 80% of the product in 20% of the.
Starbucks FourSquare Mayor Rewards Program
Well, it’s here – there is finally some financial incentive to use FourSquare and it’s in the form of discounted coffee. For a while companies like Harvard, The History Channel, and Starbucks have used FourSquare as a means to promote their products with the return to the user being the exploration of their city. Harvard.
How To Manage Facebook Privacy, cont.
In August of 2008 I wrote a blog post on how to adjust your Facebook privacy options within your friend network – this is still something I would suggest reviewing on a regular basis. (Mashable has ‘lists’ as their number one tip for Facebook users.) More recently, however, Facebook has changed the information distributed OUTSIDE.
How to Claim Your Business on FourSquare
FourSquare just rolled out the ability to claim ownership of your venue on their site via http://foursquare.com/businesses/. This is great news but there is a caveat… and a work around. I wasn’t able to find the “Are you the manager of this business?” link on any of my business pages. I emailed Chrysanthe Tenentes, the.
Mobile Mapping for AMC
Back in January I was planning logistics for a winter Presidential Traverse of several peaks including Mount Washington. The biggest concern, as always the case to the “Home of the World’s Worst Weather”, is weather and visibility. I was thinking about the limitations of GPS (which I don’t use) and a compass (which I carry.

